Thursday: Senate Budget Committee hearing on the economy; Congressional hearing on Hewlett-Packard scandal in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Panel will grill HP's leaders and lawyers about the firm's handling of its probe of leaks to the media.

IN COURT

Monday: Sentencing of Mehdi Gabayzadeh, former CEO of American Tissue Co. in Central Islip, N.Y., on conviction in $300 million fraud case.

Tuesday: Sentencing of Andrew Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer who pleaded guilty in 2004 to two counts of conspiracy, in Houston.